Table of Contents: Vol 33 • No 3 • December 2020

Editor
Franny Rabkin
franny.rabkin@gcbsa.co.za
Editorial committee
Frank Snyckers SC (chair)
Nathi Dwayi
Mark Euijen SC
Marilena Maddison
Sandhya Mahabeer SC
Jean Meiring
Lwandile Sisilana
Muhammad Zakaria Suleman
Craig Watt-Pringle SC
(ex officio – GCB chair)
BAR REPRESENTATIVES
Cape: Sascha e Câmara
Free State: Jacyn Mitchley
Grahamstown: Thomas Miller
Johannesburg: Michael Williams
KwaZulu-Natal: Carol Sibiya, Sarah Pudifin-Jones and Nooreen Nursoo
Namibia: Esi Chase
Northern Cape: Albert Eillert
North West: John Stander
Polokwane: Nathi Gaisa
Port Elizabeth: Morné Olivier
Pretoria: Alex Politis
Mthatha: Vusi Msiwa
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Editorial
- Page 1 FROM THE EDITOR
Index
- Page 2 In this issue
Chair’s contribution
Bar News
- Page 5 Free State Bar
- Page 6 Cape Bar
- Page 8 KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 12 Port Elizabeth Bar
- Page 13 Pretoria Bar
- Page 14 Johannesburg Bar
Remembering George Bizos SC
- Page 20 “I won’t let him wear me down” by Gilbert Marcus
- Page 22 George Bizos’s genuine Stalingrad Strategy by Johann Kriegler
- Page 23 “Just George” by Kameshni Pillay
- Page 24 Accused Number Five: How I became lifelong friends with George Bizos by Gcina Malindi
- Page 25 George Bizos, C.P. Cavafy and preparing for the trial by Geoff Budlender
- Page 26 George Bizos: Hercules of his time by Mahomed Navsa
- Page 27 Moments with George at the LRC by Susannah Cowen
- Page 28 George Bizos at the TRC by Colin Kahanovitz
- Page 29 Bizos often took the fight to the Bar by Jason Brickhill
- Page 30 My Good Comrade George Bizos by Karel Tip
Forum
- Page 32 Covid-19 and the Courts by Michael Williams
- Page 41 Seperation of powers in a national state of disaster: South Africa’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic by Anton Katz SC
- Page 44 The Commercial Court: The status quo by David Unterhalter
- Page 46 May it please the Court of how to Zoom clear of disaster by Jean Meiring
- Page 50 The Bar and Chambers by Bart Ford
- Page 52 Judicial Transformation is a Constitutional Imperative – A response to Judge Cachalia by Bayethe Maswazi
From the Bars on Covid-19
- Page 56 After the Covid Storm: Imagine by Sascha e Câmara
- Page 57 A George perspective by Urice Deetlefs
- Page 58 Emerging from the COVID storm: senior members looking forward by Barbara Vaughan
- Page 59 Emerging from COVID: a Junior member’s perspective by Patrick Wainwright
Covid-19 Bar Survey #2
Law Matters
- Page 62 Law Matters by Franny Rabkin
Fly on the Wall
- Page 64 Fly on the Wall